CarbonatedPastaSauce @ CarbonatedPastaSauce @lemmy.world

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Government of the people, for the people, by the people.

It's the intolerance paradox in action. It's like tolerating cancer. Cancer is a living thing, it doesn't mean you respect it and let it have its way with you without interference. Same principle.

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein. I read that when I was in high school over 30 years ago and it had more impact on me (no pun intended if you've read it) than anything before or since, I think. I read Stranger In A Strange Land shortly after and that one did a number on me, too. Heinlein's place in the pantheon of science fiction gods was well earned.

For lighter stuff, the Scions of Shanarra series, by Terry Brooks, is one I have gone back to many times.

Pretty sure there’s not much to “question” about it…

It’s ‘failed’ engineering.

Yeah the thing is we don’t want that either. We just don’t care. We see these posts every time there’s a sizable Reddit emigration. I’m not shitting on you, just telling you that you won’t find a lot of interest in that topic here.

Most people here do not give a shit about Reddit anymore and frankly are tired of hearing about it. We really don’t want the dregs of Reddit coming over here. We got most of the good people when the API bullshit started 2 years ago, and that’s why this place is great. We don’t want to become what we left behind.

I certainly changed my life by just deciding to become a different person. I had an epiphany many years ago when I was reading a short biography of Bob Ross. It described how, once he was out of the military, he decided he was never going to yell or curse at anyone ever again, and was going to lead a peaceful life taking care of animals and making other people happy however he could. He was tired of being angry and wanted peace.

That was my a-ha moment where I realized, I don't HAVE to be this pissed off curmudgeon at the ripe old age of 35 just because I have been that in the past. And I consciously decided to change. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen, and people who knew me in my 20's but haven't seen me since probably wouldn't recognize my personality now.

I also have ADHD and agree with what you said, though. When it comes to the things ADHD interferes with, it's incredibly difficult to just 'choose to be better', that's like a person with chronic fatigue syndrome and a double hip replacement just 'choosing' to run a 4 minute mile one week. Being an asshole just isn't one of those things, and I just decided to be different one day.

This is no surprise to me. I recently retired after 30 years of dealing with Microsoft's bullshit. The last 2 years or so since they started focusing on Copilot and only Copilot, I've seen the quality of every other aspect of their company, from software releases to account management to tech support quality and response time to documentation, just fall off a fucking cliff. They were never great but it's gotten REALLY bad lately. And I was working for a fortune 50 that spends many tens of millions of dollars with Microsoft every year. It's been amazing to watch.

The “deep state” is just rich people. It’s not more complicated than that and it’s not shadowy. It’s just greed.

Ecstatic! I’m sure it will go bad somehow, though.

Definitely schoolyard behavior. Doesn't make it an invalid concern or unworthy of advice, but a lot of adults are probably going to have a hard time relating to this situation. Most will look at this and have a reaction of "no, this situation is not ok", or maybe "what's the big deal?" if they lack empathy. Because this wouldn't be ok with emotionally healthy and functional adults. But it also wouldn't happen with adults (which is how, OP, you gave yourself away). Kids are much more casually cruel to each other than adults because their empathy is still developing and their perspectives acquired via life experience are still limited.

I don't know anything about the NG+ system because I steered way clear of Starfield, but it sounds like somebody at Bethesda saw people playing Skyrim over and over and thought "How can we monetize that", hence the grind you're alluding to. They expected you to encounter it organically because of course the game was such hot shit everyone was gonna play it forever. Oops.

Call me a cynic if you want but these are the guys who invented paid cosmetics.

Uhh yes. Often. First day on Earth?

Why do people do this shit to themselves?

I swear if the Borg came down some people would be lining up to join the club.

$20 million on microtransactions

Please don't.

$73 million on games and DLC

$42 per person average? Those are rookie numbers!

A whole garage full of power tools and you went with sandpaper. He said easiest, not 'least messy'!

Orange Diaper is burning my country’s goodwill to the ground and I’m so happy to see the rest of the world telling us to fuck off, and more importantly fucking with Americas wallet.

Consequences for bad behavior is the only way it ever gets corrected.

To gain.

I read this headline and immediately raced into the bathroom to see what was up, but yeah, they're still there. Everything seems fine.

I read about a study that said Homo sapiens may have been down to as few as 40 breeding pairs at one point.

I’ve got way more ammo than that in my closet.